> > Very curious how CERN and Fermilab will respond to this. > I guess that CERN was caught red-handed as well.
(wrong metaphor? you wanted "with pants down" or "off guard" or something like that? there is no evidence that CERN was "in" on this change, yes?) > They have already started to port their internal systems to CentOS8 according > to the > recent site report at HEPiX: > https://indico.cern.ch/event/898285/contributions/4015535/attachments/2120621/3569557/CERN_Site_Report_-_HEPiX_Autumn_2020_v2.pdf As one may remember, CERN Linux, SL and CentOS only exist because CERN could not agree with Red Hat on the licensing scheme for LHC-scale computing. (I guess, at the LHC scale, even small numbers like $1/license become unworkable). BTW, in other news, I see the CentOS wiki was changed to read "CentOS-8 full updates and Maintenance Updates" from "May 2024 and May 2029" to "December 2021 and December 31, 2021", see https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wiki.centos.org_action_recall_About_Product&d=DwIBAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=m57TS8KUJogsGkZGVKvoL8D7gIzlEIxZsrqSEhDOgqk&s=eQQfaXijQiDmBJz_iRNxOctSQXnzptQdtMj7Xk8N340&e= and https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wiki.centos.org_action_recall_About_Product-3Faction-3Drecall-26rev-3D122&d=DwIBAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=m57TS8KUJogsGkZGVKvoL8D7gIzlEIxZsrqSEhDOgqk&s=Hgd0S_7BGuuCKHIfyfpJaucFixwNwISvlHKpHhHwg4E&e= -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
